Mars, Incorporated

Mars, Incorporated is a family-owned company with six global business segments: Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley Gum and Confections, Food, Drinks, and Symbioscience. Across all segments around the world, Mars’ business decisions are guided by its Five Principles: Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom. In line with these key principles, Mars has established several significant sustainability initiatives around the world.

Because Chocolate is one of the oldest and largest business segments, Mars is passionate about being a leader in cocoa research across several agricultural, economic, and health issues. Based on its longstanding cocoa research program and concern for the future of the crop and the people who depend on its cultivation for survival, Mars has established a variety of programs to bring together the cocoa industry and leaders in related fields to create and fund beneficial research programs. These programs seek to ensure the long-term sustainability of the cocoa economy, the communities that produce cocoa and their environments through fundamental agricultural research in cocoa genomics and breeding, education and training programs to transfer technology to farmers and an industry leading commitment to certify its entire cocoa supply.